Pogotheostrich wrote:I hate FOX broadcast of the games. Buck and McCarver are awful, then we have Scooter the animated baseball, and annoying graphics all over the screen. Games are so much better on ESPN with Miller and Morgan or Buck Martinez. Plus ESPN has the K-Zone, which is 10 times better than any of FOX's annoying graphics.

I agree completely. Even though they are big time STL homers I can't stand them. I'm glad some of the games are on Fox because I don't have cable in my place yet so that's all I can get for now. I turn the TV down anyway and listen to the play by play on ESPN radio.

Mookie4ever wrote:The best announcer has got to be Dan Shulman. I wish he would come back to cover the Jays, but it looks like he is taking over for Miller when he retires.

I agree completely. Shulman and Dave Campbell on ESPN radio are the best play by play guys I've ever heard. I guess Canadians do know something about baseball after all.

I personally enjoy Joe Buck's play by play and can't stand Joe Morgan. Joe Morgan reminds me of Tom Jackson on NFL Countdown. I would much prefer Buck Martinez over Joe. Now Miller, I think is the best in the game, probably from so many years of hearing him broadcast Orioles games.

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What I don't like about Fox is that they distract you with so much stuff. I just want to watch the game. That said, the alternative isn't much better. David Justice babbles and is hard to understand and Gwynn sounds so nasal.

JRM4833 wrote:Down with games on ESPN. What about all the poor people who had ESPN stolen from their stolen cable? But I still don't like Fox's announcers.

HUH??

LOL. Sorry, guess it was a bit confusing. When I moved into my apartment, basic cable was already hooked up. We just stuck with it and recently the cable companies smartened up and somehow took a bunch of free channels off the basic cable (since we don't have a box I think). We now get the bare minimum of basic cable - no ESPN or any other cool channels, but we still get Spike TV and MSNBC. Just don't tell anyone about the free cable.

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JRM4833 wrote:Down with games on ESPN. What about all the poor people who had ESPN stolen from their stolen cable? But I still don't like Fox's announcers.

HUH??

LOL. Sorry, guess it was a bit confusing. When I moved into my apartment, basic cable was already hooked up. We just stuck with it and recently the cable companies smartened up and somehow took a bunch of free channels off the basic cable (since we don't have a box I think). We now get the bare minimum of basic cable - no ESPN or any other cool channels, but we still get Spike TV and MSNBC. Just don't tell anyone about the free cable.

Your secret is safe with me. If you're in a complex, it should be really easy to remove the traps for some of the better channels.